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I can sympathize and wish you and your family well.

A few years ago, my daughter then 14, came down with whooping cough/pertussis (also known as the 100 day cough -for obvious reasons) as did several other kids from her school.

The doc prescribed antibiotics which doesn't help the one afflicted, but reduces the contagion to others. He also prescribed Prednisone for a few days, which did provide a bit of relief.

What we found that helped was the following:

>>>Vitamin C - 1000 mg timed release daily

>>>Ricola herbal cough lozenges (make sure it's the one with *Horehound* as one of the ingredients.

>>>"Throat Coat Tea" - that's the actual name of the tea and can be found at most large grocery stores. The licorice in the tea is VERY soothing. My daughter didn't care for the taste, so we mixed the throat coat tea with chamomile tea to make it more palatable.

>>>At bedtime, when she was most miserable, I'd have her inhale the steam from tea with a towel draped over her head to keep the steam concentrated to her air passage. This would give her about 4 hours of comfortable sleep before we'd have to do it again.

Since my daughter's episode, we've learned that the vitamin C is crucial to speeding up the recovery process. She recovered in about half the time as the other kids from her school.

I'd seriously look into the maximum dosage for Vitamin C were I to have to go through it again.

Good luck and best wishes!